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PARK CITY, UTAH — A former CFL player charged with killing his wife by cutting her throat at a Utah ski town resort made his first court appearance Monday. Anthony D. McClanahan used a wheelchair during the hearing, though there have been no previous indications of him using one. Defence attorney John Johnson didn’t know […]

Calgary homicide investigators are investigating a fatal assault that occurred early Wednesday morning in the northeast community of Marlborough Park. Calgary police officers responded to a call in the 5500 block of Maddock Drive N.E. where they found a young male deceased, police said in a news release. A suspect is in custody, police said. […]

In the spring of 2015, life was looking good for Jessica Newman. She had begun attending a gym a few months earlier and, having conquered some big personal obstacles, was springing back to life. “She was the healthiest I’d seen her,” says her close friend of several years, Tara Saban. Over a period of several […]

Calgary police descended on the scene of a suspicious death in the city’s northeast on Friday. About 3:50 p.m., officers were called to the 100 block of Pineside Place N.E., after a report of a body being discovered inside one of the residences, police said in a release. “The homicide unit has been called out […]

“I just want to live my life, joyful and filled with love.” When it comes to the discovery that happiness is found in relationship rather than ownership, Carys Cragg isn’t different from most other enlightened souls. How she managed to get to this place at age 37, though, is thoroughly unique; its origins coming from […]

A second-degree murder charge has been downgraded to manslaughter for a Calgary pastor accused in the 2015 death of his three-month-old son. Thirty-one year old Daniel Nel, formerly associate pastor with Calgary’s Rockyview Alliance Church, learned Friday of the decision — one that came after mutual agreement between crown prosecutor Shane Parker and defence lawyer […]

Long-time Calgary criminal lawyer Christopher (C.D.) Evans and publisher Lorene Shyba have co-edited an incredible collection of memorable cases by 20 prominent Canadian lawyers and prosecutors that have had significant impacts on their careers.

Facing a lengthy second-degree murder trial in the shooting death of Amy Marie Sands at a southeast garage party more than two years ago, Jesse George Hill pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter with a firearm. However, Hill, 28, did not admit to being the shooter, but rather a party to the incident in which Sands, 27, was struck by a stray bullet intended for another target inside the garage following a dispute over drugs and derogatory comments allegedly made to him earlier on the morning of Aug. 31, 2012.

The stabbing death of a Calgary man last year was a homicide — but it wasn’t a crime, authorities determined this week. After a lengthy investigation, police and prosecutors have determined the man who stabbed Youssef Samih Jeha during an altercation inside a house on Hunterhorn Drive N.E. was being held captive.

Bad blood dating back several years is believed to have led to the “cowardly” fatal stabbing of Mario Gomez on the dance floor of a northeast Calgary bar more than two years ago, a judge said in sentencing Michael Delday to 10 years in prison on Wednesday. Delay received an additional five years in jail on drug and gun charges.

Television crime dramas and reality shows often portray time as an enemy of homicide investigators — and in many cases it is. But time can also work in favour of efforts to bring killers to justice: changing technology can allow police to see evidence in a new light; changing relationships, meanwhile, can bring forward people no longer willing to keep a killer’s dark secret.

Calgary Muslims honoured on Friday the two Canadian soldiers killed this week in separate terrorist attacks and condemned the men accused in their deaths. “Your actions are not only abhorrent, cowardly, despicable and inhuman, but you are unequivocally outside the teachings of Islam,” said David Liepert, founder of the Calgary Islamic Chamber Institute.

A second forensic psychiatrist in as many days has testified that Derek Puffer should be found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder for the stabbing deaths last year of his parents ­­— mother Donna Lee Powers and stepfather Billy Powers. Dr. Sergio Santana told defence lawyer Alain Hepner on Thursday that Puffer, 40, has schizophrenia and although he knew generally what he was doing on July 4, 2013, he did not know it was morally wrong at the time when he stabbed each of them many times while they were sleeping in their bed of their Braeside home,

After two soldiers were killed in stunning attacks within days of each other in Ottawa and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., reservists in Calgary made some security changes at a downtown armoury, but vowed their work would go on. “These are our family, so we want to make sure that they’re protected,” said Capt. Steven Zivkow, of the Calgary Highlanders, a land reserve infantry unit, though he would not disclose exactly what precautions have been taken.

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